Pramono Anung
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - House of Representatives (DPR) Deputy Speaker Pramono Anung Wibowo said, in his view, M. Nazaruddin was arrested by Colombian police due to "bad luck."
"Mohammad Nazaruddin was not caught by Indonesian police but by Colombian police who suspected him of holding a fake passport," Pramono said at the Parliament building here on Tuesday.
The Colombian police did not arrest him because they knew of his involvement in a bribery case linked to the Sea Games athletes village project, he said.
The arrest occurred when the local police conducting a raid, suspected Nazaruddin of using a forged passport.
According to Pramono, the Colombian police had caught the Indonesian fugitive by accident.
As reported earlier, Nazaruddin using a passport with a false name, was nabbed in Cartagena, Colombia on Sunday (August 7).
Nazaruddin is wanted as a suspect in a bribery case linked to a Sea Games athletes village project in Palembang, South Sumatra.
He, however, had left for Singapore a day before the KPK asked the ministry of justice and human rights to issue a travel ban for him on May 24, 2011.
He had been to several countries before he was caught in Cartagena, the head of the National Police`s public relations division, Inspector General Anton Bachrul Alam, said on Monday (Aug 8).
"Nazaruddin departed from Singapore to Vietnam and then he went to Cambodia and by a chartered plane to Bogota through Madrid, Spain, and then the Republic of Dominica," he said.
In an effort to arrest him the Indonesian police had issued a red notice for the international police to help.
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